You’re a young senior citizen in your early 50’s and you have just been pushed out of an important job that provided safety and security. How do you feel?
Some people will try to encourage you and say, “It was meant to be. A new door will open. There’s a reason for everything” and they are [...]
LOST AND ALONE
I’M STUCK, I CAN’T DECIDE
College students everywhere express this frustrating declaration.
Freshman, who have spent a lot of their time depending on their parents to solve their problems go through a major adjustment. Their parents are constantly calling them on their cell phones to make sure that they have made the right decisions, not wanting to let go.
I tell the [...]
Anger — Let It Out!
Human beings are not born angry. They build their dissatisfaction through disappointment and a lack of attention. When kids grow up in a so-called normal family there may still be signs of disfunction. It all comes back to a lack of self-expression and affection. Many parents have difficulty with understanding their children, because they rarely [...]
What Is Fear?
If we thought about the true definition of fear it would be impossible to decide on just one. How could any one explanation cover the significance of its influence on all men, women and children throughout the world.
Unfortunately, fear builds and develops into an unconscious priority that we all choose to live with on a [...]
Handwriting Analysis – The Study of all Graphic Movement
“No one can get out of his own skin. We act as our psychological past, i.e., as our cerebral organization dictates. For this reason, we are bound to expose ourselves in the association experiment in exactly the same way as we do in our own handwriting.” C.G. Jung, 1906
Curiosity is natural in human beings, especially [...]
A NEED FOR APPROVAL
Most of my clients who have come to see me seem to have the same problem that springs to the surface: the compulsive need for the approval of the world around them. This is a painful issue that takes time to be resolved. Surprisingly, most people begin to deal with this problem after they have [...]
Relationship Conflict
Do relationships ever work? Why can’t I get along with my boyfriend? Why is my husband different from the man I married? Why is my wife so domineering? I’m bored with my girlfriend!
Of course there is never one answer, but turning to the question of will relationships ever work, I must say that my clients and [...]
Welcome To Sylvia Friedman’s Blog
MY MISSION STATEMENT
HOW TO LIVE FROM THE INSIDE OUT!!
My role as coach, motivational speaker and published author has made me realize how important it is to focus on becoming internally conscious of our feelings and thoughts, both on a personal and professional level.
My mission will be to present ideas and tools that will help my [...]
